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Tony Award winner Scarlett Johansson is close to finalizing a deal to return to Broadway in a revival of Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, according to Variety.

In April, "Avengers" star and Academy Award-nominated "Hurt Locker" actor Jeremy Renner revealed that he was considering starring as Brick in a Broadway run of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof along with Johansson as Maggie.

"I'm close to making a deal on it and I cannot wait absolutely to get to it. I'm exhilarated, I'm terrified, but I think in a good way," Johansson told Variety.

No official announcement of the production has been made.

Johansson was last seen on Broadway in a revival of Arthur Miller's A View From the Bridge.

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof was previously revived in 2008 with an all-African American cast led by Terrence Howard and Anika Noni Rose. A 2003 revival starred Jason Patric and Ashley Judd.

Have you seen "Sweet Bird of Youth"?... if you haven't, it's a far inferior T.W. adaptation, but he is in it playing a gigilo who gets stoned and lays around half naked. Can't say much else about the movie, I don't really remember, but that part was BURNED into my brain :)

Can we not? We just had a revival of this, which was actually quite great. James Earl Jones and Phylicia Rashad as Big Daddy and Big Mama, people! It's too soon for another revival. I'm still waiting on that Nicole Kidman Sweet Bird of Youth revival, and I'm especially looking forward to it since James Franco has dropped out. I'm just hoping that the reason it hasn't happened yet is because Chris Pine is filming Star Trek and the casting gods have finally heard my prayer for Chris Pine as Chance Wayne.

Yes, it was on Broadway. It was the same revival with Terrance Howard and Anika Noni Rose.

My absolute favorite Williams play is Summer and Smoke. It's not even close to being his best, and there are a lot of problems with it, but that play just gets to my heart in a way that none of his other works ever could. It's about two people who have been madly in love with each other their whole lives, but he only knows how to love with his body, while she only knows how to love with her soul. The second to last scene is just so heartbreaking that my soul just wants to slit its wrists whenever I read it. Guh, it's amazing, and Alma Winemiller is far and away, hands down, my ultimate dream role.

I haven't done stage door for Scarlet but I was in the crowd for one of her movie premieres. She came over to sign autographs (which is a positive, almost everyone did at that premiere though) but she had the security team hand her the items to sign and she herself stood back about 3 feet and didn't really interact with the crowd. It was weird.

And, for what it's worth, that revival was stunning. No matter how much I love ScarJo, I highly doubt she will hold a candle to Anika Noni Rose--and nobody they cast could possibly beat Phylicia Rashad and James Earl Jones.